Post by rosieuk on Oct 31, 2020 19:45:04 GMT
I've bred cornsnakes and Hognose for a while and am getting into it seriously now.. I also found out that the tegu I thought was male is female - and this year decided to provide me with 2 surprise clutches of slug (unfertilized) eggs - 42 in total 😳.
A couple of pics are hopefully attached - one of the scaleless babies and one of another breeding pair. These are cornsnakes for those who aren't familiar. The Western Hognose pretends to be a baby Massasauga rattlesnake in the wild - it's an almost perfect pattern mimic and baby rattlers don't have rattles - that comes from shedding skin - each shed as a baby adds a section of "rattle".Â
BE ADVISED - if you happen to find snake eggs or very young babies in the wild and you don't know the species do not pick them up - any venomous snake is venomous from the minute they pip the egg or are live born (such as death adders). A baby "hot" snake - ie medically significant - can give you a very bad day and there are some highly venomous snakes that don't come with an antivenin. One young boy in Australia happened to find a nice big clutch of eggs in his garden, took them in the house and put them in a shoebox in the cupboard - then happened to mention about 60 days later that his eggs were "moving" - his mother went to have a quick look in the box to find a clutch of extremely healthy and extremely venomous Eastern Brown snakes...
I currently have a snow & anery cornsnake breeding pair that are het for Masque, stripe and other morphs including Diffuse.
Scaleless snakes have scales on the belly around the mouth and other areas of the body but generally the skin is unscaled - its a morph available in different snake species including some boas and they just need a little care regarding sharp things in vivs, which should be watched out for anyway really.
You might be surprised to hear that if you are on blood thinning meds a treatment to replace warfarin is being trialed from the Lancehead snakes venom, a *completely* non addictive morphine strength painkiller from Mamba venom and a compound called DRGN1 has been isolated from Varanus Komodoensis (yes, that one) that has anti fungal, bacterial and viral uses in humans - I am glad I wasn't the one who needed to take a blood sample from a Komodo Dragon...
And a bearded dragon can watch a video of another bearded dragon opening a cage door - and can copy it almost first time.
A couple of pics are hopefully attached - one of the scaleless babies and one of another breeding pair. These are cornsnakes for those who aren't familiar. The Western Hognose pretends to be a baby Massasauga rattlesnake in the wild - it's an almost perfect pattern mimic and baby rattlers don't have rattles - that comes from shedding skin - each shed as a baby adds a section of "rattle".Â
BE ADVISED - if you happen to find snake eggs or very young babies in the wild and you don't know the species do not pick them up - any venomous snake is venomous from the minute they pip the egg or are live born (such as death adders). A baby "hot" snake - ie medically significant - can give you a very bad day and there are some highly venomous snakes that don't come with an antivenin. One young boy in Australia happened to find a nice big clutch of eggs in his garden, took them in the house and put them in a shoebox in the cupboard - then happened to mention about 60 days later that his eggs were "moving" - his mother went to have a quick look in the box to find a clutch of extremely healthy and extremely venomous Eastern Brown snakes...
I currently have a snow & anery cornsnake breeding pair that are het for Masque, stripe and other morphs including Diffuse.
Scaleless snakes have scales on the belly around the mouth and other areas of the body but generally the skin is unscaled - its a morph available in different snake species including some boas and they just need a little care regarding sharp things in vivs, which should be watched out for anyway really.
You might be surprised to hear that if you are on blood thinning meds a treatment to replace warfarin is being trialed from the Lancehead snakes venom, a *completely* non addictive morphine strength painkiller from Mamba venom and a compound called DRGN1 has been isolated from Varanus Komodoensis (yes, that one) that has anti fungal, bacterial and viral uses in humans - I am glad I wasn't the one who needed to take a blood sample from a Komodo Dragon...
And a bearded dragon can watch a video of another bearded dragon opening a cage door - and can copy it almost first time.
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